Color Profiles

Managing color profiles within your images and when you view your images on a monitor or with a projector is critical to having a consistent experience.

Calibrate Monitors and Projectors

To display colors as originally defined within an image you must calibrate your display or projector. No device is perfect and each has it own limitations. The calibration will make a "best effort" at displaying an image.

Monitor and projector calibration is performed with a commercial product such as those from XRite (xrite.com).

Calibration is specific to a video adapter and monitor. When calibrating a projector, each screen used will also require calibration.

Image Profiles

You can use ICM color profiles within your images. When images are projected or displayed on a web page, however, they are converted to the sRGB color space. Browsers generally do not support color profiles so the conversion to sRGB is necessary to display the images properly. Your expanded color space specified in your ICM profile is useful when making prints, but rarely can a monitor use the enhanced color space.

Images uploaded to your Photo Club Services website may contain ICC color profiles and they will be handled properly. If no profile is present a sRGB profile is assumed.